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...betrayal, and, most importantly, Briony’s writing and Cecilia and Robbie’s relationship. The second half of the film, set four years later, alternates between war-ridden northern France and London. Robbie is now a soldier; estranged sisters Cecilia and an 18-year-old Briony (Romola Garai) are both nurses. This section features perhaps the most impressive moment in the movie: a long shot at Dunkirk that lasts almost five minutes. The camera weaves in and out of the carnage and confusion on the beach—as well as in and out of Robbie?...
Starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley,Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai ,Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Joe Wright. Opens...
...Nijinsky (George de la Pena) at the height of his distinguished dancing career, and beginning to design his own ballets, encouraged by mentor and lover Diaghilev (Alan Bates). But as Nijinsky's innovative ballets meet with hostile receptions, the relationship deteriorates. Convinced of Diaghilev's rejection, Nijinsky impulsively marries Romola (Leslie Brown), an infatuated heiress who has taken up ballet just to be near him. Diaghilev promptly dismisses Nijinsky from the Ballets Russes company, and the already unstable dancer goes...
...decadent life remains sketchy, and the script in general botches character development. After painstaking suggestions of Nijinsky's growing interest in the opposite sex--he asks Diaghilev to describe what sleeping with women is like, indulges in a lengthy kiss with a ballerina--the film presents his marriage to Romola as hysterical revenge on his mentor...
This movie implies that Vaslav Nijinsky, the legendary dancer, was driven into his famous madness by a combination of overwork and heterosexuality. The former, it says, was a direct result of his consuming ambition to be a choreographer. The latter came from his involvement with Romola de Pulszky, portrayed as a rather silly society girl who joins Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with the express purpose of seducing the dancer. After a number of rather tedious misunderstandings with the impresario (who is also his lover), Nijinsky indeed falls into her waiting arms; at that point his decline from...